Back Kefauver-Hearings German Επιτροπή Κεφόβερ Greek Comité especial del Senado de los Estados Unidos para investigar la delincuencia en el comercio interestatal Spanish キーフォーヴァー委員会 Japanese Komisja Kefauvera Polish
The United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce was a special committee of the United States Senate which existed from 1950 to 1951 and which investigated organized crime which crossed state borders in the United States. The committee became popularly known as the Kefauver Committee because of its chairman, Senator Estes Kefauver. The televised hearing helped Kefauver become a household name; he subsequently launched an unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1952, and became the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1956.[1] The term capo di tutti capi was introduced to the U.S. public by the Kefauver Commission.[2]